Archive for the ‘Linux Gazette’ Category

Joey’s Notes: Access Control Lists

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Joey Prestia

Linux has the ability to use access control lists at the file level. This allows file owners and system administrators to define who has access and what level of access they have beyond the level of fliesystem permissions.

Apertium: Open source machine translation

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Jimmy O’Regan

Apertium is an open source shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) system. In addition to the translation engine, it also provides tools for manipulating linguistic data, and translators designed to run using the engine. At the time of writing, there are stable bilingual translators available for English-Catalan, English-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, Catalan-French, Spanish-Portuguese, Spanish-Galician, and French-Spanish; as well as monolingual translators that translate from Esperanto to Catalan and to Spanish, and from Romanian to Spanish. There are also a number of unstable translators in various stages of development. (A list of language pairs, updated daily, is available on the Apertium wiki).

XKCD

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Randall Munroe

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More XKCD cartoons can be found here.

Review of the Plat’Home OpenBlockS

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Ben Okopnik

Some months ago, Plat’Home sent us a press release detailing their new product, the Plat’Home Open Micro Server [1]. The writeup seemed promising - lots of keywords designed to ping a geek’s heart, warm his kidneys, and titillate his imagination:

Wireless Configuration for Desktops

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Muthaiah Ramanathan

Let me start with pointers to the two most valuable (in my personal view) resources that I constantly referred to prior to deciding which PCI wireless card would be the best fit for my home system running Fedora Core 5.

News Bytes

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff

Contents:
News in General
Nokia on Open Cell Phone Systems
HP Open-sources AdvFS
Kernel Developers Sign up a Letter Against Closed-Source Drivers
Openmoko’s Linux-basedcell phone started shipping
LinuxWorld Partners on Global Installfest for Schools
LinuxWorld to host Free Community Days at SF Expo
oCERT keeps Open Source Secure
Sun Breaks Into Top 5 on Supercomputer List
Conferences and Events
Distro News
openSUSE 11.0 is Out!
Kurumin NG 8.06
linuX-gamers Live DVD 0.9.3
NexentaCore Platform 1.0.1
ArtistX 0.5
StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2
Canonical Showcases ‘Ubuntu Netbook Remix’
Software and Product News
Firefox 3
Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring
Wine 1.0
Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite v3 Professional Edition
Subversion 1.5 released
Red Hat’s new oVirt Virtualization Platform
JBoss in the Cloud
Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Downloads; Supports All MajorOSes
New Red Hat Middleware Architecture
Sun Announces Carrier Grade MySQL Cluster 6.3 at NXTcomm

Mailbag

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By LG Staff</strong

Gazette Matters
LG server is down…
small request for the editor
Our Mailbag
U.S. sanctions-compliant Linux
Spam Prevention by Enforcing Standards
Cron Sandbox
For users of RMAIL in Emacs, how do you deal with spam messages?…
Followup: Using Ubuntu 8.04 on Notebook?
Query on linux source code
C++’s cout and hexadecimal output
kernel header modification
BLOCKSIZE unset by default
Spammy Job Offer
You have 6 messages, 1 add friend request
How to refine a spam delete technique for beginners, emphasis on beginner.
Terence Timburwa added you as a friend on $$$$…
Apache — Redirect if found this “Regex”
tcp.c and tcp_input inquiry
Searching for multiple strings/patterns with ‘grep’

2-Cent Tips

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By LG Staff</strong

2-cent tip: Checking HTTP servers
2-cent tip: Speeding up Knoppix
2-cent tip: Removing the comments out of a configuration file

A slightly advanced Introduction to Vim

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By Pranesh Srinivasan

This introduction is about the little things. Things that help ease everyday tasks but go a long way into making you a better user, editor, programmer - a better computer user.

Talkback

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

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By LG Staff</strong

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